Gallup Poll Shocker: Millennials Are No More Liberal On Gun Control Than Elders, Polls Show

If you watch the Fake News networks, you would think every young person wanted to get rid of guns and sing songs of love, not hate, to stop the shootings at schools. You only hear the words of kids mouthing slogans, without an education to teach them the purpose of the Constitution and its Amendments. Just outlaw guns and violence goes away. Guess they did not know that is what Hitler did in 1930 Germany—wonder if they even know about World War II?

“Over the past three years, his polling organization asked the under-30 crowd if gun laws in the U.S. should be made more strict, less strict or kept as they are now. On average, people between the ages of 18 and 29 were one percentage point more likely to say gun laws should be more strict than the overall national average of 57 percent.

“Young people statistically aren’t that much different than anybody else,” Newport says.

‘What a whole generation feels’?

Polling by the Pew Research Center last year came to similar conclusions: 50 percent of millennials, between the ages of 18 and 36, said that gun laws in the U.S. should be more strict. That share was almost identical among the general public, according to Kim Parker, director of social trends research at Pew.

So why is the Fake News folks only showing kids opposed to the Second Amendment? Because the news media is no longer reporting the news, they are trying to change public policy—as if they were a part of the Socialist Democrat Party. If I want to listen to a Democrat office holder, I can go to a townhall or watch Anderson Cooper or Morning Joe.

Jordan Riger, 22, uses her laptop to track attendance for a weekly meeting of Students for the Second Amendment at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del. She sees firearms as tools for self-defense.

High school students around the U.S. have been leading the calls for more gun control since the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.

But past polling suggests that people under 30 in the U.S. are no more liberal on gun control than their parents or grandparents — despite diverging from their elders on the legalization of marijuana, same-sex marriage and other social issues.

“Sometimes people surprise us, and this is one of those instances that we don’t know why,” says Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of Gallup.

Over the past three years, his polling organization asked the under-30 crowd if gun laws in the U.S. should be made more strict, less strict or kept as they are now. On average, people between the ages of 18 and 29 were one percentage point more likely to say gun laws should be more strict than the overall national average of 57 percent.

“Young people statistically aren’t that much different than anybody else,” Newport says.

‘What a whole generation feels’?

Polling by the Pew Research Center last year came to similar conclusions: 50 percent of millennials, between the ages of 18 and 36, said that gun laws in the U.S. should be more strict. That share was almost identical among the general public, according to Kim Parker, director of social trends research at Pew.

Pew did find significant differences between millennials and older generations on two gun control proposals — banning assault-style weapons and banning high-capacity ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. The results showed that a greater share of millennials — both Republicans and Democrats — are more conservative when it comes to those bans compared to Generation X-ers, Baby Boomers and members of the Silent Generation.

“What we’re hearing now in the immediate aftermath of Parkland might not be representative of what a whole generation feels,” Parker says.

To be clear, many demographers argue that millennials make up one part of today’s generation of young people. Some say that millennials include people born in the 1980s and all the way through 2000.

The teenaged high school activists who have been organizing since the Florida shooting, they say, are part of a separate group some call “Generation Z.” Pollsters generally don’t count the views of those under 18, so there probably won’t be national polling on this group until more of these young people are officially adults.

‘A more progressive generation’?

Still, for 19-year-old Abigail Kaye, who considers herself a millennial, these polling results about her peers come as a shock.

“I think that’s surprising because I feel like we’re a more progressive generation,” says Kaye, who attends the University of Delaware.

Kaye says she remembers hearing about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School when she was growing up about a couple hours away in Scituate, R.I.

“We’ve grown up more, I think, with this kind of gun violence, so you’d think maybe we’d push for more regulations,” she adds.

The club’s treasurer, Jordan Riger of Lutherville, Md., 22, says after taking an NRA course on pistol shooting when she was 18, she’s seen firearms as tools for self-defense. But she thinks many of her millennial peers don’t.

“We are living in a time right now where we’re seeing a lot more of these mass casualties,” Riger says. “I think when people don’t know that much about firearms, when they see it on the news used in horrible fashion, that’s like all they associate it with.”

Sitting outside a student center on the University of Delaware’s campus, Cahlil Evans of Smyrna, Del., 20, says while he doesn’t need a gun, he can understand why people would want hunting rifles and handguns. He draws the line, though, for assault-style rifles.

“There’s no need for these high-caliber rifles that pierce through walls,” Evans says. “People can say they use them for hunting or whatever, but why do you need a weapon with such high caliber that it would pierce through the animal and like eight trees behind it?”

Still, 22-year-old Jeremy Grunden of Harrington, Del., says he’s encouraged to hear that millennials are less likely to support banning assault-style weapons.

“I base what we need off of what the military has,” says Grunden, who is president of Students for the Second Amendment at the University of Delaware. “When it comes to … the Second Amendment, we’re supposed to be a well-armed and well-maintained militia and all that. Quite frankly, we need that and plus more.”

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Stephen Frank is the publisher and editor of California Political News and Views. He speaks all over California and appears as a guest on several radio shows each week. He has also served as a guest host on radio talk shows. He is a fulltime political consultant.

It is difficult to find real news these days.
You have totally bias leftist news on CNN and MSNBC
You have only the news they decide to report on NBC, CBS ABC.
ONLY FOX seems to come close to the real news.
Then your have the radio talking heads with many different points to consider.
Older folks are learning how to sort through the many options.
The younger generations are totally confused but are starting to question the usual news sources.
After a year President Trump has the best track record for the truth.

Gun control advocates wanting to control gun purchases are either ignorant of, or choose to ignore some basic facts: 1) there are 300 million guns in the United States; 2) Six million are AR-15 type assault weapons; and 3) (and most important). The next school shooter probably has their gun already.